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How can I be kept informed about the Canterbury Water Management Strategy? For updates about the development of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy please join the mailing list by: logging your address on the following website: www.canterburyw ...
How do I know contributing to the implementation of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy will make a difference? The Environment Canterbury (Temporary Commissioners and Improved Water Management) Act refers specifically to the Canterbury Water Management Strategy. It states that decisio ...
How is the water use managed currently? Water management has been governed by the Resource Management Act 1991(RMA) of which an integral part is set up to prevent or mitigate adverse effects on water resources through d ...
How will the Canterbury Water Management Strategy be implemented? The Canterbury Water Management Strategy (CWMS) will be implemented through a Regional Committee and up to 10 Water Management Zone Committees. The water executive will work on ...
What are the Canterbury Water Management Strategy targets? The targets are an agreed way to measure progress in achieving the vision of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy. The targets include a set of goals applying from 2010 that r ...
What are the key points included in the Canterbury Water Management Strategy? The Canterbury Water Management Strategy includes a number of key points that have been proposed as a way for Canterbury to manage it's water resource in the best possible way. Th ...
What is the Canterbury Mayoral Forum and who is in it? The Canterbury Mayoral Forum was formed to adopt a Canterbury Region wide approach to identifying opportunities and solve problems relating to a range of issues of mutual concern. ...
What is the purpose of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy steering group and who is on it? The steering group has been tasked by the Mayoral Forum to oversee the preparation of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy (CWMS), the public and stakeholder consultation proc ...
What is the vision of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy? The vision of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy is “to gain the greatest cultural, economic, environmental, recreational and social benefits from our water resources within ...
Where can I find out more about the Canterbury Water Management Strategy? More information is available at www.canterburywater.org.nz. This web resource will be regularly updated throughout the programme. ...
Why has the Canterbury Water Management Strategy been developed? The Canterbury Water Management Strategy originally was initiated to address concerns of the farming industry following the droughts of the 1990s. Despite considerable effort a ...
Why is the Canterbury Water Management Strategy important? Despite considerable effort and provision of legislation Canterbury’s precious water resources have over the past 20 years become increasingly under pressure from water abstractio ...
Will the Canterbury Water Management Strategy be binding and set in concrete? The Canterbury Water Management Strategy is a guiding document and the vision and principles have been given statutory status in the Environment Canterbury Act 2010. Aspects of th ...

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